Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places of My Life sees Alan tour his beloved Norfolk, visiting the places that have shaped the man he is today, while Alan Partridge on Open Books with Martin Bryce will feature Alan getting interviewed by an author (Robert Popper) about his literary works.

A second series of Mid Morning Matters will also be screened in 2013.

"Alan has been off the TV for too long but he is even more excited than me about his chance to have a second bite of the cherry," Coogan said. "Alan feels the second decade of the millennium is the right time."

Sky Atlantic will also premiere two more projects from Coogan's Baby Cow production company - animated children's special Uncle Wormsley's Christmas voiced by Coogan, Julia Davis, Julian Barratt and John Thompson, and Steve Coogan's Stand-Up Down Under, which follows the comedian on his Australian tour.

Baby Cow CEO Henry Normal commented: "Sky Atlantic looks like being at a party everyone wants to go to. I feel really fortunate that Baby Cow can be at the beginning of this great adventure."